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=== | === Modern variations of Greek terms === | ||
* Kleptocracy | * Kleptocracy = rule by the corrupt | ||
* Kakistocracy | ** from the Greek "kléptō" for "I steal" | ||
** from | ** ex. "kelptomaiac" = one who steals impulsively | ||
<pre>American poet James Russell Lowell used the term in 1877, in a letter to Joel Benton, writing, "What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. Is it or is it not a result of Democracy? Is ours a 'government of the people by the people for the people,' or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"</pre> | * Kakistocracy = rule by the worst | ||
** from the Greek "kakistos" for "the worse" | |||
* Corporatocracy | click EXPAND for 1877 use of the term: | ||
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<pre>American poet James Russell Lowell used the term in 1877, in a letter to Joel Benton, writing, "What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. Is it or is it not a result of Democracy? Is ours a 'government of the people by the people for the people,' or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?" | |||
from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy| Wikipedia]]</pre> | |||
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* Corporatocracy = rule by corporations | |||
* Idiocracy = rule by idiots | |||